Metal ore-car.



PATBNTED DEG. 24, 19o?.-

'12.1. nouns. METALOBE CAR `."QEPLIOATION FILED JUNB-24, 1905.

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PATENTED 1350.24, 19o?. LDoDDs.

E METAL ORE CAB. APPL'IGATION FILED JUNE 24. 1905.

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Improvements in Metal Ore-Cars, of, which i "UNiriiD sriiiEg-x.

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PATENT formen.

'i i.i.iNois, .issieiioR To Tini-1er: LLMAN ooiiPiiN'Y,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION -OF ILI'JIO'ISL .METAL ORE-GAR.

Specification of Letters Patent. f

Patented Dec'. 24, 1907.

To all 'whom fit/may concern: l

Be it known that I, ETI-IAN I. Do'nns, a 4citizen of the United States, resi-ding atIullman, in the county of Cook and State of Ulinois, have invented certain new and useful the following is a specification.'

i This invention relates 'tolnietal'cars such the invention is to provide 4acar of such` a facility of 'easy repair. l A s 'Io these ends my invention consists in a i vide a car coinbininga maximum of strength,

rigidity and durability with light weight and metal -car having the peculiarities of form and struc-ture substantially as hereinafter described and in the claims, l l

A car constructed in accordance lwith vmy more particularly pointed out .invention is'illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,- r

Figure 1 is a part plan and a part horizon` tal sectional view; Fig. 2 is a part side elevation and apart vvertical sectional-view; Fig. 3 is a vertical 4cross-sectional view on th'e line 3-5 of Fig. 17 'on an enlargedscale; Fig. 4 is a similar transverse sectional view lon the line 4-4 of Fig.- 1'; Fig 5is an -end'elevational view; and Fig. .6 isa fragmentary vhorizontal sectional view through a portion of the center and oneside of the carl.

Referring t'o the drawings, 1() designates the central longitudinal sills of the car formed end-plates 14 I as hereinafter described. The's1de-p1ates13 f of inwardly facing channelbeains, the ends of which extend'vtlirough and a slight 'distance beyond the body-holsters, hereinafter described. 11 are the side sil'lsfalso formedl of outwardly facing channel beams connected at their ends by end sills 1,'2. The body-, portion of the' car which, as shown more particularly in Fig. 2,- lies inwardlyrof and `:between the body-holsters of the under frame.,- is forme'd essentiallyl of side-plates 13 and. suitably 'united and reinforced are perpendicular from the bottom of thefcar portions' (Fig.

.sills 11, and from the latter plane the plates 4have a slight inward tape as shown more' particularly 'inv Fig.' 4. dlflie lend-plates le arealso cut at their v( )uter'edges' ona taper to conform tothe taperof the sidesof thecar.' The end plates flare' outwardly 'and i'ipwardly as shown in; Fig.- 2, and are united .at their innerl or ineeting'edges by a channel' '15 disposed with -ts anges protrudingoutwardly of the'car-b.ody. The top. of the car-body-oi'i all'fou'r sides is reinforced and' still'ened `by angles 16, and thep'lates 13 and 14 are united at' the' vertical corners by channels-17 having so' f their'webs 'bent' into rect-angular forni, as l clearly shown in Fig. 6. "The side-plates 1'3'.

are securely riveted to side stakes 18,-which l latter are preferably made from-sections' o'f I=beam having its web out on the bias so as t'o leave a short section of the outer flange 18a: between the upper and' lower oblique edges for riyetirig; to the' side,l ends ,of the 'car-body1 against longitudinal shifting by means of diagonalbraces '19 herein shown as formed by outwardly facing channel beams 'connected at,tlieir u'pper ends tothe centralv inclined.

channel 15 of the en d walls and attheir lower ends Ato the center sills 10. l A

, Bent plates disposed longitudinally of the vcar-body overlying the sidesof the center' sills and with upwardly 'convergent upper,

hinged and operating doors 21, each door' i comprising a pair of plates lying oni opposite sides of the car-body, respectively, and united by means of an I-beani 2-2 having its ends cut jon thebias, saidbeam acting both as a con-- ncctor and equalzingbar for the' door sections. Thesedoors are hinged at 23 (Fig. 2) in inversely disposed pairs or twins, and may4v be operated by a wind-lass 24 through the medium of chains 25 and idler. pulleys 26. However my4 presen-tliinproveinents are not concerned with any'particular door-operatingmechanisin, and any -other suitableinechanism may ,be substituted Afor that herein i shown.`

` The body-holsters beyond which lie outside 'of and theiends of the car-body are disposed to the horizontal plane of the-tops of the sideJ l1 transversely between the side sills 11 and the 4)' 'constitute central load' deflectors as well as reinforcing n'ienibers for center sills l0, and areof hollow o r box-like forni, each comprising a pair of outwardly facing pressed beams 27 forine with top, bottom and outer end flanges. Sai and reinforced in their upper edges by a tension plate 2S, and on' their lower edgesby a compression plate 29. The outer end flanges of the beams 27 are riveted to the side sills 11 (Fig- 3), while the inner ends of said beams are united to the center sills by anglesSO.

It will be observed -that the car herein shown and described is of greater width at the bottoni than at the top, while its end walls slope lownwardly and inwardly in the usual manner. By this construction the compression or congestion of the load as it' discharges,. due to the downward lconvergence of the end walls, is largely oi'l'set and neutralized by the downward divergence of the side walls which affords perfectfreedoni for the action of gravitation and greatly facilitates the freedo-niof discharge andprevents stakes secured to the inner faces of said side A sills, and a load-holding receptacle having its side Walls secured to said side' stakes, substantially as described.

2. .In a caro'f the class'described, the coini 'bination With the side sills, of a series of side stakes secured to the inner faces of. said side sills and extending below the latter, and a load holding receptacle having 'the full depth of said side stakes'and secured through.v

its side walls to the latter, substantially as described. n

3. In a'car of the class described,the coinbination of side sills, side st'akes disposed insideof and secured to said ,side-sills, and a car body `whose sides are attached to said side stakes, substantiallyA as described.

- 4. In a-car of the class described, the coinbination of side sills, sidel stakes having inner and outer, 'lianges, said outer llanges beingv secured to the inner surfaces ofsaid side beams are united sills, and a carbodyy fastened to the inner flanges of said side stakes, substantially as' described.

5. In a car of the-class described, the cornbination of channel side sills disposed with their flangesextended outwardly, side stakes having short outer flanges and long inner flanges, the webs of. said, 'stakes tapering from the ends of said short outer flanges to said innerilanges, said outer flanges being fastened to the inner surfaces of said channel side sills, and a car body secured' to the inner 'Hang-cs of said side stakes, substantially as described.

6. In a car ol the classdesc-ribed, the conl-l bination' of side sills, side stakes disposed insideof and secured to said side sills, and a car body having downwardlydivergent side walls and downwardly convergent end walls attached to said side stakes, substantially as described.

7. Ina car of the class described, the coinbination with the under-frame, of a load-` holding` receptacle mounted centrally on said under-traine, and inclined end braces connecting the upper ends of said receptacle with the center sills of the ii`iideifranie vinside of the body-holsters, substantially as described.

v8. A railway car stake having llanges of unequal length Onopposite edges of a web which tapers from one end of' the shorter 'lia-nge' toward ihe longer ilauge, substantially as described.

9.' A railway car stake having ilanges of unequal length on the opposite 'edges ol a connecting web which tapers from boih end-s of the shorter 'flange to the longer ilange, substantially as described.

l0. A' railway ear stake I-shaped in crosssect'ion,`the oppositely disposed llanges on one edge of the web being shorter ihanthe oppositely disposed Allanges on ,the other edge of the web, s aidweb tapering from the ends i otfthe shorter ilanges toward. the longer llangeS.

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Witnesses: I

SAMYEL N. Ioxn, I FREDERICK C. Goonwrx. 

